The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-14

Jackson gas well is down 2,4OO feet.
No new developments.
Mayor Hayden, of Jackson, presented
each member Of the police force with fat
turkey.
The Van Buren, County Teachers As
ISOLATION will meet at Hartford, Dec. o
and 10.
-Menominee reporters are brilliant, one
of them who wears $1,000 diamond pin
being unusually so.
The convicts of the Jackson Prison
disposed of six hundred pounds of chicken
on Thanksgiving Day.
"A bed OF fre-cay, fifteen feet thick
and only three feet from the surface, was
recently found on the farm of ii. A. Hay
den, of Spring Arbor.
Fire broke out in the Babcock corn
planter building at Adrian. recently, and
before the firemen had finished tie inside
was pretty badly demoralized. The loss is
Tot less than $4,000.
Louis White, a convict received at
Jackson Prison, Sept y, 1886, on a three
years sentence from Menonnee County
for burglary, has been taken to the Insane
Asylum at Ionia. White is violently in
eane.
C. f. Smith & Co.. stone contractors,
of Jonesville, are laying in large supply
ct clone to fill next seasons contracts.
Fcom twenty to forty teams Lave been at
work for the past few weeks, and from 100
. SUI loads have been drown in every
day.
The nine members of the Salvation
Amy, of Jackson, who were arrested for
disturbing the peace, were tried recently.
The men were fined 50 each, and the
women were discharged under suspended
sentence. Ihe case was appealed to the
Circuit Court.
! The annual meeting of the Mich gan
Shorthorn Cattle Breeders Association will
be held at Lansing December 81. The
change is made to give the members of the
Sheep Breeders Association which holds
its meeting on the Goth, opportunity to at
tend both meetings at one trip.
The Ludington, Wells & Van Setback
Company, of Menominee, now has about
1900, 900 feet of old logs in the boom and
scattered along the river, and will bank
probably 80, 900, 900 feet during the winter,
having 200 men in the woods, while there
vi be 500 when the season is further ad-
anced.
Work on the Manistee River drive is
finished for this season, and the men paid
off. TIE sack" is at the "old house" near
the south line of Browntown. From the
sorting gap to that point the river is pretty
well filled with logs; reasonable estimate
puts the number at about GO, 000,0 900 feet.
Work at the sorting gap will be continued
as long as the weather permits.
The annual election of officers of La
fayette Lodge No. 16 +. and A. NJ, of
)onesville, has been held, and the follow
ing officers chosen: w. NJ, c. o. Bur-
nett; S. W., C. p. McEnally; j. W., G. E.
Case; Treasurer, Geo. ID. Harding; Secre-
tary, G. II. Levens; S. D., JAS. Sackett; J.
D., l.. N. Roberts; Tyler, John Webster;
Representative TO Grand Lodge, C. II.
Levens.
The President and Secretary of the
Southeastern Michigan G.. A. r. Associa-
lion have issued call for n meeting of the
I Executive Committee, TO be held in Adrian
L II g.
the purpose Of locating the place and fixing
the time Of holding the next annual en-
compliment, and transacting such other
business as may properly come before the
committee.
Hon. John G.. Owen has purchased
what is known as the Thomas mill, at
Chase, md the Peton mill, near Nirvana.
The machinery will be removed to Brook
field Township, Huron County, and used
in the erection of new mill. d. X. Al
lington, mechanical engineer, is now pre-
pairing the design. 1t viii have capacity
of $4,000 feet daily. Mr.. Owen has about
10000 feet of timber TO manufacture on
lands owned by him in that vicinity.
John w. Brooks, Manager of the De-
troit Corset Company, and very recently
occupying a similar position in Chicago,
started for New York lately from Detroit.
In clearing out his valise, preparatory to
packing it, he threw on the floor some poi
sonous pills taken by him while suffering
recently from neuralgia. After Mr.. Brooks
left his rooms at the Antisdel House his
1S-months- sold child found and ate the
pills and died the next day.
A Woman's Relief Corps has been or
ganized in Jonesvile by Mrs. Plummer,
President of the Relief Corps of Michigan.
The organization is to be called Henry
Baxter Corps No. 127, and the following
officers have been elected and installed:
President, Hrs. Addie Earl; Senior Vice
President, Mrs. Lillian Wade; Junior Vice
President, Mrs. Libbie Spencer; Secre-
tary, Miss II. b. Seeds Treasurer, Mrs. C.
p. NLcEnally; Chaplain. Mrs. Oliver Merrill;
Conductor, Mrs. Go. Askew; Assistant
Conductor, Mrs. Mary Macomber; Guard,